WHAT? That can't be! But. by their standards middle age is between the ages of 33 and 50. And in truth the fact that my source is NPR should have been a big clue, although I've been a listener for at least 15 years. None the less, here I am, smack dab in the middle of middle age.
The title of the show was "I realized I was grown up when..." This got me to thinking. When does anyone really become a grown up? When did I become one? I have a few litmus tests that I go by, but these things are not in the least one size fits all, so sing along where you know the words:
I realized I was a grown up when...
- I started getting excited about election day
- I realized that lying, in general is just lame
- I started to become exceedingly annoyed with people who use the word "like" more than one time in a sentence
- I was more interested in connecting with people on an intellectual level than a physical one
- I could moderate my drinking to get a desired affect: buzzed, happy, happy drunk, stupid drunk
- I learned to quit drinking before getting stupid drunk
- I started reading labels of every food I buy for calories, sodium and saturated fat
- Analgesics became a regular item on my shopping list
- I could be proud of my gray hair, but color them red or purple anyway
- I realized not only do I not know everything, but in the great realm of things I don't know shit
- I became comfortable with the fact that I don't know shit, and decided to do my best to know as much as I could
- I embraced who I am, not who I wanted to be, and interestingly I then became the latter
- The highlight of my day was getting hugs from my kids
- I started to recognize my parents' mortality
- I started realizing my own mortality
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